Marijuana and Cannabis News

After years of dreaming about it, last Friday -- a week ago today -- I spoke for the first time at Seattle Hempfest.

Yeah, it was as much fun as I had imagined. I packed all I possibly could into my allotted five minutes.

"Toke of the Town editor Steve Elliott speaks to the Seattle Hempfest crowd about 'Big Pharma', prohibitionists telling a lot of lies and cannabis as a neuroprotectant," YouTube uploader RestoreHemp said. "He urges people to seek out the scientific truth about marijuana for themselves and join the fight to end prohibition.

"Elliott finishes by showing how cannabis connects us to the past and to each other and also unites us with our human cultural history."

I spoke just before 4:20 Saturday, and got in some of the same points as the day before, adding a little more about industrial hemp and how our (near) future society will be based on hemp's non-toxic and sustainable energy sources.

My Saturday speech from the Seeley Stage was also captured on video and uploaded to YouTube by the wonderful coralfish19, also known as CoralReefer420 on Twitter.

At first, I only had 50 seconds of the Saturday speech, but then Coral uploaded almost the entire thing, running just over 4 minutes and 20 seconds. :)

Good work, Steve. The truth is organic, it has a life of its own. Thank you for helping to spread the truth around a little bit. Your heartfelt vision of a better future for us all with legal cannabis is the future that I want!

@Darth, we have to be bold about telling the truth, no matter how crazy it may sound to folks who don't know, which means collecting strong citations on things like this and being 100% unapologetic about defending the science behind it. I'm not even a smoker, but recognize the incredible healing effects of cannabis, and defend it in the reddest parts of red states during my travels.